Your Undergraduate Dissertation: The Essential Guide for Success (SAGE Study Skills Series) - Softcover

Walliman, Nicholas Stephen Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761941401 ISBN 13: 9780761941408

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

′This book is one of the most helpful I have seen in terms of helping undergraduate students understand the methods and principles involved in carrying out research for the final dissertation which many degree courses require. In essence it is a complete guide, covering every aspect of the process, outlining each step from selecting a theme to final writing and submission′ -ESCalate

Your Undergraduate Dissertation: The Essential Guide for Success is a practical step-by-step guide to managing and developing a successful undergraduate project.

Nicholas Walliman offers a comprehensive and easy to follow guide to both the theoretical and practical aspects of doing a dissertation. This book provides a clear and structured explanation of how to undertake a project, helping readers to identify and acquire the necessary skills to plan and carry out the research and writing.

This practical and concise book provides:

- Advice for preparing a project and choosing a topic

- Guidelines for writing a project proposal and producing a literature review

- Advice on choosing and implementing appropriate methodology

- An awareness of ethical issues

- Methods of data collection and analysis

- Information for writing-up the report

- Interdisciplinary case-studies and `real-life′ examples to illustrate key themes

This book is a compact, easy-to-read guide to all the essential facets of dissertation writing at undergraduate level. Written in a lively and engaging manner, its use of humorous illustrations, simple exercises and useful guides to further reading, make it an attractive handbook for students across the social sciences.

Written by an experienced lecturer and writer, this book is a`must-have′ for a any student anxious to maximize their success in dissertation writing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Nicholas Walliman is a qualified architect and Associate Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University and is a former research associate in the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. He has been engaged on a series of nationally and internationally funded research projects on aspects of building technology and has published many research papers. He has also supervised and examined numerous PhD, MPhil and Masters students. He has published a number of books on doing research and writing papers, dissertations and theses.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761941401
• ISBN 13: 9780761941408
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296
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